When To Ice Verses When To Heat Generally there is still some confusion around the use of ice verses heat when treating injuries and managing pain. Frequently I will have patients tell me they didn’t ice and injury or heat some pain because they weren’t sure which one to use and didn’t want to make… Read More >
What Are Platelet Rich Plasma Injections? Platelet rich plasma more commonly referred to as PRP injections have been in use for several years and are an alternative treatment for managing chronic tendinopathy and degenerative joint disease such as osteoarthritis. Platelets are they cells in our blood associated with healing and repair, the basic science behind… Read More >
What Is The Difference Between Focused Verses Radial Shockwave Therapy? Focused (ESWT) and radial (RSWT) shockwaves differ in a number of ways, the physical principles are different from the way they are generated, the energy and energy density of each wave as well as the therapeutic penetration depths into the tissue. However in saying that… Read More >
Use Standing Desks To Increase Your Life Expectancy With the American Cancer Society having put out research statistics suggesting people sitting more than six hours a day have a higher death rate it is easy to see why sitting is labeled the new smoking. Couple this with other studies finding similar results where active people… Read More >
Sydney Physio Clinic Offers The Highest Quality Radial Shockwave Therapy On The Market For Sydney Physio Clinic choosing the very best shockwave therapy (ESWT) machine to offer our patients was the number one priority when we looked into purchasing one of the many different machines available on the market. With the relatively new arrival of… Read More >
Ultrasound Therapy As Used By Physiotherapists? Ultrasound therapy in physiotherapy is the utilization of sound waves to help stimulate a healing response. As a result, this from of ultrasound is referred to as therapeutic ultrasound, the sound waves in therapeutic ultrasound are sound waves that sit above the range capable of being detected by human… Read More >
How Can Therapeutic Ultrasound Influence Tissue Repair? Following injury there are generally considered to be three main stages of tissue repair that therapeutic ultrasound can have an influence on, the inflammatory phase, the proliferative phase and the remodeling phase. The use of therapeutic ultrasound can have a positive effect on all three of these phases… Read More >
How Does Shockwave Treatment Achieve Results? One of the basic principles behind the way shockwave treatment (ESWT) achieves great results with soft tissue injuries is through the high pressured acoustic shockwaves generated that travel through the skin inducing microtrauma to the target/injured tissue. Subsequently this microtrauma stimulates a healing response in the body, this healing… Read More >
Shockwave Therapy At Sydney Physio Clinic At Sydney Physio Clinic we are pleased to be able offer our patients access to shockwave therapy as a part of our services. Shockwave therapy is a relatively new tool used in the fight against many chronic musculoskeletal conditions. It can be an effective tool in the conservative treatment… Read More >
A Physio Appointment Is Not That Scary If you have never been to a physio before, or perhaps you have been to a physiotherapist elsewhere in the past but have never seen Hayden, then you may be wondering what to expect of your first appointment with him. Over the years Hayden has seen countless patients… Read More >